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Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.
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Let the punishment match the offense.
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It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.
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Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
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I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.
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That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]
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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
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For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.
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Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.
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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.
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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
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Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?
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To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
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